OK, he's not even trying to be serious anymore

Limbaugh: Bush wasn’t partisan.

While much of the attention on Rush Limbaugh has focused on his stated desire to see President Obama fail, he has also been going around trying to secure President Bush’s legacy. Yesterday, for example, he appeared on Fox’s Hannity’s America and tried to argue that Bush wasn’t at all partisan:

RUSH: Well, I think he’s a decent man. He’s a - he had a reverence for the office, that’s why he didn’t get partisan. He thought it was irreverent to turn the Oval Office, or the Office of the Presidency, into a partisan strategic battle place. […]

Yes, you know, domestic policy, he did some things that puzzled us - creating a new entitlement, the whole immigration thing, signing campaign finance reform. But he’s a good man. He’s not hated.

The public surely remembers Bush differently; after all, he left office with a 33 percent approval rating. In the wake of Karl Rove’s mass politicization of the federal government, the Justice Department scandals, and the suppression of science for politics, Limbaugh may be one of the few people in America who can claim with a straight face that Bush wasn’t “partisan.”

Update - On Friday, Rep. Jerry Moran (R-KS) said that it has been easier to work with Obama than it was with Bush: "The times I interacted with President Bush, generally, I'd get summoned to the White House because I disagreed with something that the president was for. He kind of lectured. It was about 'are you with me or against me.'" Moran said that with Obama, there appeared to be "some level of common ground we can agree upon."

(Think Progress)